Kingfisher's Mallya: Shutting down 'not an option'

Kingfisher Airlines (IT) founder and chairman Vijay Mallya vowed to keep the troubled airline operating even as it continues to cancel flights and fails to make numerous scheduled payments.

Kingfisher Airlines A320. Courtesy, IT
Kingfisher Airlines (IT) founder and chairman Vijay Mallya vowed to keep the troubled airline operating even as it continues to cancel flights and fails to make numerous scheduled payments.
The airline has had trouble making payroll (ATW Daily News, Feb. 15 ) and its planned entrance into the oneworld alliance this month was postponed (ATW Daily News, Feb. 6).
India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a December report that ...